Table of Contents

Cover Page
Acknowledgements
Preface

Prologue: Patterns of Cultural Appropriation in World History

I. The 'British Disease'

  1. Context since the First Industrial Revolution

  2. Intellectual trends after the French Revolution

  3. Institutional trends in public education

II. 'Models'

  1.   Labour in control

  2. The American model

    • Pre Second World War origins
    • Post Second World War projection

  3.   The Japanese model
    • American and British 'secrets'
    • Factors in the transformation
    • 1979--projection of the Japanese model

III. 'Japanization'

  1. The foreshadowing of Alexandre Kojeve

  2. Margaret Thatcher and the Japanese model

  3. Trends in industry since Margaret Thatcher

  4. The spectrum of 'Japanization'

    • 'Direct Japanization'
    • 'Mediated Japanization II'
    • 'Mediated Japanization I'
  5. An assessment--boundaries in the workplace

IV. 'Management Education'

  1. Modern institutional inertia

  2. Margaret Thatcher's education reforms

  3. Evolution of 'management education'

  4. Management education in public schools

    • 'Constancy of purpose'
    • 'Improve constantly . . . '
    • 'Break down departmental boundaries

Epilogue

  1. Expectations

  2. Appearances

  3. Realities: continuity and the 'contest'

  4. Patterns: shifting centers

Afterward (July 1998)
Appendix
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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